St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-12-15

"And be at home all the timer NJ
car fare, no perpetual new boots an6
gloves, no lunches to buy ~
"Even So" beamed Miss Crutchett.
Mabel flung her book into the ali
and deftly caught it again. with lit
tie cry of delight.
"Tell me what it is" she coaxed
"Don't, for PHYS sake, keep me wait
ing"
Miss Crutchett sat calmly down, un.
tied her bonnet strings, took off hel
gloves and rolled them up neatly, eacl
within the other, then she gave hel
spectacles an extra polish and tool
two fat little volumes out of her peck
| ct.
"Here are your text OOOks," said she
"Master the contents of these, and
yOnr trade is learned"
| Mabel made feverish snatch at the
books. One was ga Complete House
Book" the other was "The Manual OF
Cookery"
Her cOuntenance fell.
"Miss Crutchett," she cried, "yOu
are making game of me-"
'NOt in the least" said Miss Crutch-
EFT. al mean every word that say,
and l am ready to prove it. There is
no way in which wife can help her
husband so satisfactorily and thor
Oughly as in the details of home life.
Take my advice, Mabel. Go down
stairs and dismiss that inefficient, care
less servant of yours, who is sinfully
spelling good food, and feeding a
door, while you are ordering expen-
-. l. Al, TO, ,,f
There isn't u man living whose income
wasteful servants and a negleetful
wife"
"Neglectful ~ cried Mabel, with a
red bar rising to her forehead.
"Ask yourself, my dear, if | haven't
used the right word," cOmpOsedly re-
tOrted Miss Crutchett. "And here you
are, pining to go out into the world
and earn money to help your husband,
when you could help him thousand
times more wOmanly and efficiently by
making the most of the money he earns
and by surrounding him with all the
best and sweetest influences of Il home.
Now, my dear, | can read what Is
working in your heart. L know per-
fectly well that you are wondering
WHY thO iuCuuliuS iiOoiO Oiu ui"io UOON
MT mind her own business"
mo, | am not" truthfully cried out
Mabel.
"But L think you are sensible
enough" went on Miss Crutchett, "tO
perceive the truth of what have been
saying. | have been looking around
your kitchen, and jotting down in my
memorandum book a few facts and tg-
AtaASs ~ 81
CANT maid. Save, to begin with, the
fourteen dollars month which repre-
SCENTS her wages ; save the twelve dol
lars which represents her board, save
the not to- be expressed sum OF her
waste, her breakage, her carelessness,
her untidiness. Typhoid fever and
diphtheria rise out of just such I'M
clearly corners as find in your kitch-
Ell and pantry. Purify the place at
once avoid doctors bills; shut the
door on druggists. Housekeeping
can be made one of the fine arts 1t
should be SO. When you save you
earn. And in addition to all this your
husbands house is made beautiful and
hOmelike. Now, my dear, L don't
know much about careers, but in my
eyes no career could be more attrac-
tive, more necessary, i'll fact, than this.
Will you give it IL trial, Mabel ="
eyes," said Mabel, in low voice.
~ will give it trial. II don't know
how it is, but L never thought of all
these things before, Miss Crutchett."
.There must be beginning to ev-
erything, my DEAR" said the old lady,
gently stroking the sunny braids of
Mabel's down dropping head: "and
you are as yet but novice In LIES
journey"
Mabel Verinder thought it all over.
She decided to take her eccentric old
friends advice, and at the end of the
first month she added up the debit aud
credit accounts of the household.
"Victory !" she cried, 81 have earn
ed, or saved--Or bOth-fOrty dollars
this month by doing my own house
keeping. I've had every thing in ex-
quisite order, and the same supplies go
twice as far as they did in Christine's
time. And, oh, | have enjoyed it so
much. What can l care for type writ
ing and legal copying, and authorship,
and decorative art Z I've found Ca
reer that is worth a dozen of them"
"And really" said Charley, edo yon
know May is the jOlliest little house
keeper going? And my Aunt Selma
says it does her good to see her beat
ing eggs and sugar, and counting the
spoons and napkin rings"
Mabel smiled and colOred. She
would not have owned it for the world,
but the appreciation of Charley's Aunt
Selma signitied Il great deal to her.